We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUWe must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOUArt attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOUThe aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOULove can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
ALAIN BADIOUThe ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
ALAIN BADIOUWe know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUIn love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUEmancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
ALAIN BADIOULove is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOULove and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOUlet us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
ALAIN BADIOULove without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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